14 best-selling fiction books like The Tale of a Dog: Novel by Tom Geddes

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The Tale of a Dog: Novel

By: Tom Geddes

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The judge and protagonist of this roman noir is Erwin Caldwell. The year is 1992, and the rivers in…

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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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2. Professor Andersens natt

By: Dag Solstad

3.38

Format: 140 pages, Unknown Binding

An existential murder story. A master of Norwegian literature critiques contemporary society with w… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"„В сравнение с Пер Екерберг професор Андершен се чувстваше като старомоден мъж в петдесетте си години. Държеше на възгледите си, без всъщност да ги харесва, и ако можеше, с удоволствие би ги заменил …"

-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt

"„Съмнявам се, ужасно много се съмнявам в собствената си функция в това време, което вече не понасям. Зъбът на времето, той ме гризе и съсипва всичко. Зъбът на времето гризе и най-върховите интелектуа…"

-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt

"He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. - but thought solely that it enlightened …"

-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt

"Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we mean what we say when we say it is a matter of the greatest significance. Because …"

-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt

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3. Factotum

By: Charles Bukowski

3.93

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of as… read more

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  • fiction
"عشق به درد آدم‌های واقعی می‌خورد."

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came."

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession."

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"Моята пияна от бира душа е по-тъжна от всички мъртви коледни елхи по света"

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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4. The Guermantes Way

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Format: 619 pages, Paperback

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more

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  • fiction
"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش می‌آید، چون تخیل با توست"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک می‌شناسد"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

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5. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)

By: Marcel Proust

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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6. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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7. Tonio Kröger

By: Thomas Mann , J. White

3.73

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series, in German with English notes, vocabular… read more

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"A felicidade é amar e talvez colher pequenas aproximações ilusórias da pessoa amada."

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

"Vuole credere lei che sarei orgoglioso e felice di possedere un amico tra gli uomini? Ma fino ad ora ho avuto amici solo tra demoni, farfarelli, mostri oscuri e fantasmi afasiaci, vale a dire: tra le…"

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

"ბედნიერება იმაში კი არ არის, რომ უყვარდეთ; ეს გაძლევს მხოლოდ კმაყოფილების გრძნობას. იყო ბედნიერი - ნიშნავს გიყვარდეს, დაიჭირო წარმავალი, შესაძლოა მაცდური წამიერი გაელვებები, შენი სიყვარულის ობიექტის …"

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

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8. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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9. Om konsten att läsa och skriva

By: Olof Lagercrantz

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Om konsten att lasa och skriva handlar inte om skrivregler, upplagg och lasande med plikt utan ar e… read more

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  • swedish literature

10. La luna e i falò

By: Cesare Pavese , Gian Luigi Beccaria

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nell'aprile del 1950 e considerato dalla critica il libro piu bello di Pavese, "La luna … read more

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11. The Birds

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more

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12. A Tiler's Afternoon

By: Tom Geddes , Lars Gustafsson

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In his newest novel, A Tiler's Afternoon, Lars Gustafsson invites us to share a day's work with Tor… read more

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13. Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem

By: Harry Martinson , Leif Sjöberg , None

3.43

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The great Swedish writer Harry Martinson published his masterpiece, Aniara, during the height of th… read more

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14. The Death of a Beekeeper

By: Lars Gustafsson , None , None

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the beginning of the winter thaw, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will no… read more

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15. The Dwarf

By: Pär Lagerkvist , None

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

"I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think i… read more

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16. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

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17. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

18. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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19. Dorés bibel

By: Torgny Lindgren

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

"Har borjar jag saga min berattelse om Gustave Dores Bibel. Jag sager den i en inspelningsapparat a… read more

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20. Writing

By: Marguerite Duras

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written in the splendid bareness of her late style, these pages are Marguerite Duras's theory of li… read more

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21. Snowblind (Dark Iceland, #1)

By: Quentin Bates , Ragnar Jónasson

3.55

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their do… read more

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22. The Insufferable Gaucho

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories … read more

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23. Melancholy

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls , None

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but t… read more

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24. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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25. Löpa varg

By: Kerstin Ekman

3.97

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Då kom han ut. Han gjorde det med en självklarhet som var lätt att begripa; den här världen var ju … read more

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  • swedish literature
  • sweden
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Cover of The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old by Hendrik Groen

26. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

By: Hendrik Groen

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Bachman's A Man Called Ove: an irresistible, f… read more

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Cover of Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

27. Frankissstein: A Love Story

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.54

Format: 344 pages, ebook

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more

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"Yet I wish I had a cat."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"Stars in the sky like uncounted chances."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

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28. The Eternal Smile: Three Stories

By: Pär Lagerkvist

4.07

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

"Det var en gång några döda, de satt samman någonstans i mörkret, var visste de inte, kanske ingens… read more

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29. The Tale of a Dog: Novel

By: Tom Geddes

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The judge and protagonist of this roman noir is Erwin Caldwell. The year is 1992, and the rivers in… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • sweden
  • fiction
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30. Den orörda platsen

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.88

Format: 177 pages, Hardcover

Den orörda platsen - en samlingsvolym med noveller av Ernest Hemingway. Översättning och efterord a… read more

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31. Il Decano

By: Lars Gustafsson

2.98

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Il dottor Spencer, “un tipo pallido, magro e coi capelli rossi”, professore all’Università del Texa… read more

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10 must-read novels books like The Tale of a Dog: Novel by Tom Geddes

Transform Your Habits

Professor Andersens natt

Dag Solstad

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Factotum

Charles Bukowski

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Guermantes Way

Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)

Marcel Proust

3.40

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6 best-selling fiction books like The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old by Hendrik Groen

Transform Your Habits

Wees onzichtbaar

Murat Isik

4.25

Transform Your Habits

De verwarde cavia

Paulien Cornelisse

3.00

Transform Your Habits

De Camino

Anya Niewierra

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Hoe overleef ik alles wat ik niemand vertel? (Generatie Hoi - Hoe overleef ik..., #1)

Francine Oomen

3.39

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